We are taking part in the exhibition Flower Power at The Musée Des Impressionnismes Giverny which was previously on show at Kunsthalle Munich.
The show is an unprecedented exploration of the power of flowers, from Antiquity to the present day. DRIFT’s Fragile Future will be exhibited alongside masters such as Monet, Cézanne and Andy Warhol.
The exhibition opens on September 29, 2023, to January 7, 2024.
The premiere of DRIFT’s collaboration with the National Dance Theater of the Netherlands took place on September 21st 2023.
Lonneke Gordijn developed a new, site-specific artwork to accompany the dance performance as choreographed by Imre and Marne van Opstal. The piece will tour through the Netherlands, before embarking on an international tour in 2024.
Selected Press
De Volkskrant: In ‘The Point Being’ brengt DRIFT-kunstenares Lonneke Gordijn haar lichtinstallaties naar het theater
Het Parool: Drift maakte een installatie met 400 ledjes voor Nederlands Dans Theater: ‘Je ziet alleen het licht dat weerkaatst op de dansers’
Numéro Magazine: DRIFT CREATES ARTWORK FOR THE STAGE IN COLLABORATION WITH NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER
Monday 4th September saw the opening of LUX: Poetic Resolution at DDP Seoul. DDP is a beautiful building designed by Zaha Hadid. We are thrilled to be included in such an exciting group exhibition, including works by Pipilottii Rist & Julian Knxx amongst many other wonderful artists and curated by SUUM. Our kinetic botanical field artwork Meadow is on view until December 31, 2023.
We were back at Black Rock City for an adventurous burn. Lucas van Oostrum and our team brought 1000 drones to the playa this year. It is always a massive group effort to create art at Burning Man and we are grateful for the love and effort of the community that has supported us over the years.
The show represented 4 of the 164.000 animals which are on the endangered species list. We must change our behaviour to protect and nourish the natural world.
Art by Ralph Nauta
Creative producer: Lucas van Oostrum / Drone Stories
DRIFT is pleased to announce their first solo exhibition in Brazil. From March 29th onwards, a traveling exhibition titled Vida em Coisas will start off at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (CCBB) in Rio de Janeiro, followed by São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia.
Vida em Coisas explores “the possibility of nature and technology living together in harmony. Be it through the bionic world or be it through the concept of animism, in which everything – animals, natural phenomena and inanimate objects – has a spirit that connects them with everything else” – as beautifully stated by curator Marcello Dantas.
This exhibition in Brazil brings together a selection of representative works by DRIFT, ranging from sculpture to installation, and will build on DRIFT’s practice of creating experiences that invoke a reconnection to our planet.
Vida em Coisas is curated by Marcello Dantas.
Read more:
Hypebeast – Studio DRIFT Unveils ‘Vida em Coisas’ Exhibition in São Paulo
Elle – STUDIO DRIFT LEVA EXPERIÊNCIA POÉTICA E IMERSIVA AO CCBB SP
Harper’s Bazaar Brazil – STUDIO DRIFT REPRODUZ BALÉ DA NATUREZA COM EXPOSIÇÃO NO CCBB, EM SÃO PAULO
The annual TED conference in Vancouver is an event during which prominent experts across a wide range of fields are invited to share their ideas with the world. As a viral video phenomenon, TED attracts an enormous and influential audience. This year, TED invited DRIFT’s Lonneke Gordijn to participate in their yearly program to talk about the development process of their studio’s artworks.
The New York City Ballet presents their tenth annual Art Series, where they invite a contemporary artist to create a site-specific work which will be displayed during their winter performance season. This year it is DRIFT’s signature work Shylight that will be on view in the lobby from January 17 through February 26, with open hours for the general public as well.
Read more:
Designboom – DRIFT’s dancing flowers ‘shylight’ gracefully bounce in new york city ballet
Playbill – New York City Ballet to Display Visual Art Installation, That Resembles Ballerinas
Coded Nature explores the relationship between humans, nature and technology. An autonomously flying swarm of DRIFT blocks responds to the movement of the audience, reflecting the endless opportunities of creation in nature as well as a continuous flow of change. The work was unveiled and shown to public for the first time, at Art Basel Miami 2022.
The work illustrates how humans strive to live autonomously within sets of societal rules and conventions, and challenges the human concept of freedom. If every bird were to operate on its own, the ultimate result would be chaos. Just like birds, people find safety in being part of a group. As such, their actions must be aligned with collective mechanisms and are compelled to follow a set of rules based on which society functions. If one chooses complete individual freedom over societal effort then one can only operate aside from it, which makes us question: What is the perfect balance between the two? Is freedom an illusion?
This year Art Basel Miami celebrated it’s 20th anniversary. For this special occasion, DRIFT’s award winning drone sculpture Franchise Freedom returned to the city after it premiered there in 2017. In collaboration with Art Basel, the artwork flew above the Convention Center for two evenings in a row, both visitors from the art fair and citizens enjoyed the memorable performance.
Read more:
ARTnews – DRIFT Restages Drone Performance for Art Basel Miami Beach’s 20th Anniversary
19 NOV 2022 — 30 APR 2023
DRIFT’s exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is now on view till April 2023. In this exhibition are several artworks of DRIFT exhibited, with our signature work Fragile Future as the center piece. The exhibition also explores how our artworks come to life. Drawings, models, prototypes, and other documents of the studio’s experiments offer glimpses of the research and engineering that lie behind the apparent effortlessness of our experiential creations. Go check it out for your self.
For Burning Man, DRIFT created a special performance in collaboration with creative friends.
The show was a a story on Man vs. Machine
Check out the video and see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brJW7ydT_rs
Together with Phaidon we present Drift: Choreographing the Future, the first book to explore the extraordinary world of DRIFT. Over the course of more than a decade, our uniquely immersive projects have been exhibited all over the world, offering meditative and poetic experiences to our audiences and addressing themes such as the relationship between the individual and the collective and the impact of technology in our society. This is the first book to explore our extraordinary world in depth.
Conceived in close collaboration with Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, this book spans 15 years of DRIFT’s practice. 240 coloured illustrations, along with writings on and by DRIFT, provide an unparalleled overview of our remarkable output. Featured projects include Franchise Freedom (2017), which saw the murmuration patterns of starlings transformed into an aerial performance by drones; Shylight (2006), kinetic lights that fold and bloom like flowers, mimicking the natural mechanism which allows certain plaints to open in daylight and close at night; and Drifter (2017), a concrete block capable of levitating in space. Our book’s publication is timed to coincide with a string of new projects and exhibitions opening in 2022.
Pre-order now: DRIFT, Choreographing the Future. Our book will ship from October 13th, 2022.
Format; Hardback
Size; 290 x 214 mm (11 3/8 x 8 3/8 in)
Pages; 240 pp
Illustrations; 200 illustrations
ISBN; 9781838661717
